Women Rights

The proposed amendment also deprives women in Iraq of rights to divorce, child custody, and inheritance.

Union Minister Smriti Irani responded to RJD MP Manoj Jha who sought menstrual hygiene for members of LGBTQIA community.

The bill will only come into effect after 2027 when a fresh census will be conducted and existing constituencies will be redrawn.

The Taliban regime has banned girls over 10 years of age from attending primary school classes in some provinces of Afghanistan

The Taliban stated that it respects women's rights in accordance with its interpretation of Islamic law and Afghan customs.

"Women are banned from working out of the house, we planned to be at home and have activities, so we started making Afghan traditional food," said the head of the kitchen, Manizha Sadat.

"In some countries, girls going to school risk kidnapping and assault. In others, police prey on vulnerable women they have sworn to protect. Gender equality is growing more distant. On the current track, UN Women puts it 300 years away," the UN Chief said.

The women customers feel a sense of fear as they look at the hooded mannequins donned in elaborate dresses. "When I see them, I feel that these mannequins are also captured and trapped, and I get a sense of fear. I feel like I see myself behind these shop windows, an Afghan woman who has been deprived of all her rights," a woman shopping at the Lycee Maryam Street was quoted as saying.

The Taliban govt in Afghanistan had directed public and private universities to suspend access to university education for female students

Several male students at the Nangarhar University in Jalalabad and at Kandahar University in Afghanistan staged a protest and expressed solidarity with the women. The male students walked out of the examination hall at the University and stood by women's rights in the country.